GREELEYVILLE by Jane Paudaux

Greeley District 6 CASP Scores Are Out! Not Pretty.

2010-08-10T17:59:00.006-05:00

Unbelievable. If you have a kid in a public school in Colorado I strongly urge parents to make both the State and Districts accountable for fully publishing these scores. It appears the State, at least, are playing them down. Too close to elections. It looks like they have changed the display of the scoring system so results don't look so dismal. 4th grade Math D6 has moved from 33%

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Oh Where, Oh Where....

2010-04-29T12:19:00.002-05:00

Jane has left the building for now. I'll be back.

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Greeley School District 6 Cuts Government and World Culture Requirements

2010-03-29T17:59:00.010-05:00

Greeley Colorado's infamous school district, District 6, has been busy putting the finishing touches on the mountain of financial cuts the Board has declared as needed. It began, if you recall, with a panicked forced contract on teachers to save money, grew into a dire 15% round of emergency cuts, and has ended with an actual 6% shortfall for next year. That shortfall as I stated earlier could

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Should We Concentrate On Building Better Teachers in Greeley Colorado?

2010-03-04T13:36:00.009-05:00

Greeley-Evans School District 6 is my idea of a good example. It is a "hiring" problem. But that's not all. The article below on Building Better Teachers shared from the New York Times talks about the problem in common terms we can all understand. Although that isn't the only reason it is a great article. The article looks at the complexity of the problem of measurement and attaching pay to

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Charter Schools, Standardized Testing, and Conservative Ideology Under the Spotlight

2010-03-03T10:19:00.010-05:00

Greeley Colorado District 6 has been championing expanding Charter Schools, as has, to be fair, the Obama Administration. For me Charter Schools are usually (not always) a political bone to throw to the predominantly wealthier classes to segregate their kids from those "not like us". Greeley's District 6 "dramatized" cuts are falling predominantly on the minority and poorer schools in Northern

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Greeley's Superintendent Ranelle Lang Interviews for Lincoln Schools Job

2010-02-28T15:40:00.005-05:00

Ranelle Lang, Superintendent of Greeley-Evans School District 6 apparently had an interview this last Thursday for a new job in her native Nebraska. A couple of local papers have published some of her comments. I've posted a piece below and also provided the link to the entire article.I've also heard back from the State on the comingling of Special Education funds. D6 is consolidating its

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One Notch Higher for Greeley Colorado District Six Parents

2010-02-23T02:42:00.013-05:00

My general opinion of the people living in Greeley Colorado's District 6 Schools jurisdiction just went up a notch last night after watching several adults and teens give the School Board of District 6, and Superintendent Renelle Lang, a common sense check on the true nature of their jobs: education. It is all about education of course. It is not about diminishing education so you can report to

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Financial Crisis or House Cleaning for Greeley District 6 Schools

2010-01-25T02:08:00.012-05:00

Cutting budgets is never easy. Particularly when you are talking about cutting out two hundred jobs in an already economically ravaged town. Yet, there are better approaches and poorer approaches. It isn't clear yet just what approach Greeley District 6 is applying but it already doesn't look pristine. What is certain is that the School Board and Superintendent Lang of Greeley Schools District

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Greeley Colorado District 6 School Superintendent: Up to $16 Million in Cuts

2010-01-23T17:50:00.014-05:00

Ranelle Lang, Superintendent of Greeley Colorado District 6 School system, has proposed that all department heads produce multiple budget scenarios preparing for cuts of anywhere between eight, ten, to twelve percent or more according to a letter distributed by email (so much for Ms. Lang's personal touch and consideration) to District 6 employees.Strength is what we need locally over the next

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The Guillotine is Rolled Out For Greeley Schools District 6

2010-01-14T18:44:00.007-05:00

Greeley's District 6 Administration and Board are in the process of organizing spring cleaning. Schools are being scheduled to be shut. Cameron will see its head roll. Jefferson is being merged. Just what that means I am not certain. It appears to mean that all the alternative students and "problems" will be stuffed into one school. Cuts are coming, to the best of my knowledge, to every

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Howard Dean's Recommendation for the Current Senate Reform Bill

2009-12-17T10:41:00.004-05:00

This comes from today's Washington Post Editorial by Dean. Oddly I couldn't find any share links on the article or I would have just posted it to Facebook. So I am putting it up on Greeleyville instead. The commentary I read initially covering Dean's role was a bit snippy. The impression I got was that the writer held that President Obama had stiffed Dean and left him out of the cherry roles

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Health Reform: Senator Joe Lieberman Skewered by Ann Telnaes

2009-12-16T15:40:00.007-05:00

Thus far, the best indication of Senator Joe, Let-the-Poor-Die, Lieberman's take on what he would like the health care bill to look like comes from a searing Washington Post Cartoon done by Ann Telnaes. She disembowels the Senator using his own words and a few well placed pen lines dancing to modern technology's tune. I've posted the link to the cartoon below along with Ann's Bio on the

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Senator Lieberman Takes Reform Out of Health Care Bill

2009-12-15T19:49:00.006-05:00

Gee thanks Joe. What a swell guy.All things I am hearing and reading point to the fact that Senator Joe Lieberman has gutted the "reform" from the health care bill in the Senate. Senator Harry Reid turned into a puddle at Lieberman's feet. I'm digging for more information and will post it as soon as I come up with something substantial to post.If I were in the other Democratic Senators shoes

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A Mood is Rising in America's Underclasses

2009-12-13T08:40:00.007-05:00

Sixth grade gave me one of the loves of my life, history. I had a superb teacher in a small rural school. He traded his history book for a coach's cap during part of each day. But he certainly didn't mind mingling the two. He'd round us up, all eighteen students, and send us out on a sunny day to the green playground field for a game of "History Baseball". It could just as easily been known

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Healthcare Reform: Greeley's Thunderhead on Frog-Walking Conservative Democrats

2009-12-12T06:33:00.000-05:00

A guest posting, written over the course of the last few months as the nations law makers bicker over health care, by the Greeley blogger Thunderhead. Thunderhead describes the legislative fallout of first giving the insurance industry the power to ignore antitrust legislation after WWII, for valid reasons, and now, three-quarters of a decade later, removing from the current House bill on

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Sen. Reid Carves Tombstone for Public Option

2009-12-10T03:06:00.007-05:00

Anyone have any ideas on what the tombstone over the public option for healthcare will look like? Will it be a picture of Harry Reid's face alone or can we get a group photo of Senator Reid, Ms. Don't-Snow-on-my-private-parade Olympia, Senator MyPeopleGetWhateverItell'emIwant Montana's Max Baucus (a Corporate Pinocchio if there ever was one), and our own beloved

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Mango Couscous And A Big Turkey

2009-11-19T03:48:00.005-05:00

I hate cooking the same things over and over again. I don't like reading the same book twice, driving the same route every day, and I rarely watch a movie twice. I think that sensation of newness and creativity. I like the exploration of spaces, nooks, and crannies that can fill my mind. I'm an insatiable woman that way. Hence I look for new ways to torture my family on Thanksgiving every

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Making Instant Window Ice in Greeley Colorado

2009-11-19T03:03:00.004-05:00

All right. Stop calling. I'll write. I'll write!It's true I have been skipping out on those refreshing blood pressure gushing cynical observations of mine. And, yes, I realize I've let some of my readers down and made them go search for some other neurotic politically minded blogger.But my heart has been more into reflection the last couple of months and I don't generally write about things

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Don't Forget Cranky's Students Are Posting Good Things

2009-11-12T21:43:00.004-05:00

The UNC class covered election night at the Greeley Tribune. It is interesting to read their impressions for that night. So don't forget to give them some support and visit their postings on the Cranky Copy Editor's page. If you look to the left hand side of the blog you'll see the City Council links to the student postings. I am not a big fan of the Tribune myself. And I certainly would

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Congressional Shocker: Betsy Markey Bats For The Other Team

2009-11-08T20:34:00.004-05:00

It would appear that I am not the only one peeved at the Democrats voting against health care reform. Thunderhead, a Greeley Colorado resident, posted the following note to my previous thoughts about Northern Colorado's Congresswoman Betsy Markey. I thought I'd repost it here.Thunderhead: No one wants you on their football team when you cannot come through in the pinch.The Virginia governor's

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Betsy Markey Votes to Support Second Class Citzenship

2009-11-08T15:15:00.009-05:00

It deeply saddened me this morning to find Betsy Markey voted against the Health Care Reform bill. While I realize she is playing to the conservative base in Northern Colorado it is appalling to watch someone in office drive the rest of us, also on the bus, over the cliff.Bye-bye Betsy. You have lost every voter in my family. Sometimes you have to stand up for what is logical and reasonable

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Is Greeley District Six School Board Going Union Busting?

2009-10-29T18:35:00.001-05:00

A little excitement with your prairie coffee? There are disturbing things going on between the Greeley Colorado District 6 School Board and the Teacher's Union--Greeley Education Association. Could the District 6 School Board be working a strategy to bust the Teacher's Union? There are contracts being placed in teacher's school mailboxes and at least some teachers feel they are under pressure to

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New Contract Offerred to Greeley District 6 Teachers

2009-10-29T16:00:00.000-05:00

The following are scans of a contract document placed within a Greeley Colorado District 6 Schools envelope and placed in the mailbox of a long time Greeley Colorado District 6 teacher who is also a member of the Greeley Education Association Union. To enlarge these documents for viewing click on the document icon and it will expand into the window. I have referred to these documents in the

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Negotiations: Greeley Colorado District 6 Teachers Get Thrown Under the Bus

2009-10-27T11:06:00.005-05:00

Greeley Colorado District 6 school teachers got a parochial school lesson last evening from the District School Board when the Board basically decided on a package deal for the teachers. Teachers are howling and the Union is threatening action. It remains to be seen what can or can't be done. While it would be reasonable during an economic downturn to curtail cost of living increases it is a

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UNC Student Bloggers Are Hot Greeley Colorado Journalism Tamales

2009-10-22T18:24:00.009-05:00

I really like being surprised in a positive way. I revisited the UNC site where The Cranky Copy Editor, Lynn Klyde-Silverstein, has rounded up a tussle of students in a journalism class and has them blogging on Greeley Colorado's City Council meetings. Of course, I already posted about this previously. I also added a link to the site in my blog list and am crossing my fingers she will turn a

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